Ex-NC speaker now set to get out of prison in 2011Former North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black has gotten a year knocked off his federal prison sentence

Nouveau ambulance chasersI don’t know if you’ve been to the new Marriott yet, but it’s worth the drive, if only to take in the majesty of the hundred feet of projection TVs in the sports bar. Every sporting event from every country in the world. I think I want to be buried there.

Houston pulls away from Rice late for 78-70 winHOUSTON -- Aubrey Coleman scored 18 points and Kelvin Lewis added 17 as Houston pulled away from Rice late for 78-70 victory Wednesday night.